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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






2. The dictionary meaning of a word.






3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






4. The person who 'tells' the story.






5. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






6. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






7. A phrase or expression that has been repeated so often it has lost its significance.






8. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






9. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






10. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






11. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






12. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






13. The repetition of similar vowel sounds in a sentence or a line of poetry or prose.






14. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






15. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






16. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






17. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






18. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.






19. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






20. Broken down acts.






21. A figure of speech in which an abstract concept or an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed.






22. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






23. A six-line unit of verse constituting a stanza or section of a poem.






24. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






25. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






26. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






27. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






28. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






29. The organizational form of a literary work.






30. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.






31. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






32. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






33. A character struggles against some outside force.






34. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






35. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






36. What a story or play is about.






37. A poem that tells a story.






38. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






39. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






40. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.






41. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






42. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






43. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






44. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






45. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






46. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






47. The main character of a literary work.






48. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






49. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.






50. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.







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